Ignore Specific Commits in Git Blame
We've all been there before - you go to run git blame and find the commit that caused the bug...and it's a massive formatting commit, and the bug lies deeper. Wouldn't it be great if you could ignore those types of commits?
Turns out there are a couple of options to ignore commits. This isn't fully automated, you will need to know the commits that you want to ignore ahead of time.
If you need to do this on an ad hoc basis, you can use --ignore-rev and pass in the SHA of the commit:
git blame --ignore-rev <rev>
That's going to get tedious if you want to ignore it every time you run git blame. You can also add the revisions to a file (conventionally named .git-blame-ignore-revs), one revision SHA per line. Then you can tell git blame to use that file either as an argument or as a config:
# as an argument
git blame --ignore-revs-file <file>
# or add it to config
git config blame.ignoreRevsFile <file>